What Literary Characters Would Be for Halloween

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Do you have your Halloween costume yet? Jay Gatsby does. And do does Edmund Penvensie, Pollyanna, The Three Musketeers, and Holden Caulfield. (Well maybe not Holden Caulfield.) This list of what we think literary characters would be for Halloween is for you to enjoy. And, if you're stuck for your own costume, you could always be Jay Gatsby as Benjamin Franklin or Edmund Penvensie as a box of Turkish Delights. How incredibly postmodern!

Edmund Penvensie (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe): A box of Turkish Delights. Just like he was last year. And the year before. And the year before. The boy is obsessed.

Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina): Mean Girls' Cady Heron dressed as a scary ex-wife. Like Cady, Anna was ostracized by the society mean girls. So you can bet that if Anna Karenina went to a Halloween party, she'd be dressed to scare, while Countess Lydia Ivanovna would be dressed as a Playboy Bunny or something. Ivanovna could hang with Daisy Buchanan.

Godot (Waiting for Godot): Santa Clause. Where do you think Godot got his inspiration to, you know, not exist?

Scout Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird): Atticus Finch. Knowing Scout, a rambunctious little tom boy, she'd find nothing cooler than dressing up like not just a man, not just a lawyer man, but her father, who is also her hero.

Captain Ahab (Moby Dick): A dick, of course. We obviously mean "detective," although Ahab was a huge egotistical jerk-face.